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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What needs to change as people adapt to future culture?
(a) People's sense of their relations.
(b) People's sense of how much work things require.
(c) People's sense of how long things take.
(d) People's sense of what things cost.

2. What is the consequence of high mobility, according to Toffler?
(a) Political involvement.
(b) Non-involvement in the community.
(c) Nationalism.
(d) Class consolidation in the suburbs.

3. What effect does renting have on people, in Toffler's account?
(a) Intensifies the territorial instincts.
(b) Deemphasizes the territorial instinct.
(c) Shortens the man-thing relationship.
(d) Diminishes nationalism.

4. What problem does Toffler describe for professionals in a future society?
(a) They will not be able to keep up with changes.
(b) Their industries will become obsolete.
(c) They will have more and more power in their fields.
(d) They will shrink in size as a social class.

5. What category are more relationships taking place in, according to Toffler?
(a) Service relationships.
(b) Family relationships.
(c) Committed relationships.
(d) Professional relationships.

Short Answer Questions

1. What will changes in agriculture mean for the future Toffler foresees?

2. How do people learn to be aware of time, as Toffler describes it?

3. How do many people treat change, as Toffler describes it?

4. What does Toffler say has become less important in commuter culture?

5. What does the automobile contribute to super-industrial culture?

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